Zen Lu, experimental/eletronic musician and sound artist, lives and works in Shenzhen, China. During the last few years Zen Lu founded and joined several local musical troups. In 2004, he joined YOUNG CRAZY, and it was then he developed a huge interest in the genres of experimental electronica and industrial noise. In April 2006, he formed ZenBOBO and since then he has become totally engrossed in composing minimalist/ambient music. In September 2006, he collaborated with Polish experimental musician Grzegorz Bojanek and formed ChoP, releasing an album. In May 2007, he founded Skybox duo with Dickson Dee. Zen Lu performed in several festivals and concerts throughout Asia and Europe such as the New Vision Arts Festival (Hong Kong), SAND Festival (Hong Kong), Asia Europe Music Camp and Clandestino Festival (Gothenburg, Sweden), Moving Closer International New Media Festival (Warsaw, Poland), Chinese Sound Art in Poland project (5 cities in Poland), Get It Louder Exhibition (Guangzhou, China), etc.

Shanghai born Huang set off on his creative path as a student of modern dance and fine arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s. He then dipped his toes in the fashion world but with a major climate shift on the way in the dance music scene, Huang gave up a budding career in fashion and found his calling in the Beijing music scene. Self taught Huang single-handedly kick-started Beijing’s club scene back in the mid-nineties, before anyone knew what club culture or electronic music was. China’s open door policy had not opened enough to let in the developments going on in the rest of the world, with the influx of music being heavily filtered from the mainstream pop culture trends of neighboring Taiwan and Hong Kong. “At the time no one knew what it meant to be a DJ, and what house music was. House, Techno and Electronic music was underground in China at that time.” Ben Huang introduced the young funky things of Beijing to the international sounds of 'real' club beats. Strange as it may seem, there simply was no club scene in the Peoples Republic of China. Huang created one all by himself - scraping together records from friends and peers, and via mail from Hong Kong and Europe. Huang collected and nurtured his own avant-garde style in the underground clubs of Beijing and Shanghai. His creative expression comprised of varying styles from experimental, nu jazz, tech house to minimal techno. Huang’s music transported Beijing and Shanghai’s small underworld and kicked down its doors to the sounds from Detroit to Berlin. “Music inspires me. I use music to inspire people. I just trust my feeling with any music I hear.”

Location: Stage of the German Pavilion